Donald Trump the Megathread part II - threadbans and mod warnings in OP

Liz Cheney was squashed at the ballot in 2022. Adam Kinzinger was forced out of his seat, I think. Maybe the only sensible Republicans left are the ones who are deliberately agnostic on the Trump issue, saying nothing particularly in favour of him or against.

Interestingly, Kinzinger apparently made this remark in his farewell address where he accused the Democrats of propping up MAGA candidates (presumably because they thought such people would be easier to beat?)

Many of you have asked me, "Where are all the good Republicans?" Over the past two years, Democratic leadership had the opportunity to stand above the fray. Instead, they poured millions of dollars into the campaigns of MAGA Republicans, the same candidates President Biden called a national security threat, to ensure these good Republicans do not make it out of their respective primaries. This is no longer politics as usual; this is not a game. If you keep stoking the fire, you can't point the fingers when our great experiment goes up in flames.

Food for thought, there, from a man who could not be said to be a MAGA loon at all since he along with Cheney headed up that Jan 6th Committee and fell on his sword from it.

Where is Donald?

He hasn't been seen in a while. He's not out campaigning. People are wondering if he's okay. Doing a phone in with a friendly news station doesn't ease people's concern.

I suspect he's got dementia. I've a second cousin twice removed who had it, and it's definitely that. No other explanation for it. I mean, where's the medical records saying it's *not* dementia?

It's sad. I think it's Melania pulling the strings. He's 77. He should retire. To force him to keep going is elder abuse.

(Am i doing it okay?)

Have to agree, seems the wind has gone out of the MAGA/Trump sails, a weak/unknown VP, and he's looking more like an increasingly unhinged angry looking septuagenarian.

It's all about timing. If that was the 'October Surprise', even against Kamala he could have walked the election. But happening when it did, and then Biden dropping out and being replaced by Kamala…. as awful as it was that an attempt on his life was made it also ended up not being serious enough that it wasn't very quickly eclipsed by Biden dropping out.

Then you factor in the dud of a VP pick in Vance, and increased focus on Project 2025, his shambolic appearance at the NABJ, and now how they're being called "weird" which is incredibly emasculating and reductive against Trump compared to his fist in the air bloody faced flag behind photo from the assassination attempt…. the idea of Trump himself as a powerful figure surviving an assassination attempt has been completely shrunk.

I think, what's really eating away at Donald Trump, what really is making him spiral, based on his rants and weird wishcasting that Biden get back in the race, is that he wanted a bonafide rematch with Joe Biden, and now he's never gonna get the chance.

And now he's going to be beat by a woman.

This is how much MAGA fear Harris being on the ticket for President...